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Take Heart: Encouragement for Authors – Guest Post by Cynthia Reyes…

I just came across an email exchange between a talented author and me from a year ago.

She wrote, “I’m actually feeling a bit sorry for myself, having just received another rejection a few hours ago from an agent who seemed very excited about my last manuscript, but decided not to offer me representation. Closest I’ve come so far.”

I reflected on that. I knew it was time to offer encouragement. But how?

What to say that wouldn’t be platitudinous or too mundane to have impact?

I had previously urged this author to try indie publishing. She felt it would be too difficult to take that on. So this time, I asked:

“Have you tried the smaller publishers? The future is with small publishers, and many authors find themselves more supported by these small publishers than the larger ones.”